1. CAN THE ANIMAL SUBALTERN LAUGH? Neoliberal Inversions, Cross-Species Solidarities, and Other Challenges to Human Exceptionalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION: New Ideals of Belonging and Africana Origins of Interspecies Living 1
4. 1. CAN THE ANIMAL SUBALTERN LAUGH? Neoliberal Inversions, Cross-Species Solidarities, and Other Challenges to Human Exceptionalism 29
5. 2. PALEOLITHIC ETHICS: Ethics’ Evolution from Play, the Interspecies Community Selection Hypothesis, and Anarchic Communitarianism 60
6. 3. AFFECT ATTUNEMENT: Discourse Ethics Across Species 80
7. 4. WATER AND WING GIVE WONDER: Meditations on Cosmopolitan Peace 100
8. 5. REFLECTIONS: A Model and a Vision of Ethical Life 131
9. CODA; OR, THE SONG OF THE DOG-MAN: Mourning in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace 147
10. Acknowledgments 175
11. Notes 177
12. Index 217